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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/G/AC 15/54
TitleLetters from Captain Allen F. Gardiner, Valparaiso 1839, Port Louis, East Falkland 1842
Extent3 items
Date1839-1842
Description/1: 8 March 1839: possibility of starting mission work amongst the 'Indians' by approaching through Chile, including visit to Corbolan, chief of the Moluka; describes journeys to Quinchinlea, Lake Ranco, Osoono and north of Valdivia.
/2: 15 March 1839: corrected copy of /1;
/3: 28 April 1842: impossibility of mission work in South America because of Roman Catholic opposition; urges opening for mission work in the Straits of Magalhaen and describes Patagonian peoples; encloses memorandum of articles needful for a missionary to Patagonia.
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